Hercules the Modern Cycle - Stoke, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
N 53° 00.336 W 002° 11.241
30U E 554529 N 5873202
A ghost sign located on the side of a building above shops on Hartshill Road in Stoke.
Waymark Code: WMV7VK
Location: West Midlands, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 03/11/2017
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The ghost sign is a faded painted sign advertising 'Hercules the Modern Cycle' it is on the brick wall of a three story property on Hartshill Road in Stoke. The property is now an Indian Takeaway.
The Hercules Cycle and Motor Company Limited was founded on in 1910.
The name Hercules was chosen for its associations of durability and robustness. The company was founded by Sir Edmund Crane and started life in Coventry Street, Birmingham, England, producing 25 bicycles a week.
By 1928 Hercules exported one in five of all British cycles and, by 1935, 40 per cent.
Production continued and by the end of the thirties, Hercules had produced more than six million bicycles, and could claim to be the biggest manufacturer of cycles in the world. Source: (
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